US1722101A - Measuring device - Google Patents

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July 23, 1929. w. F.1LITTLE MEASURING DEVI CE Filed Aug. 20, 1924 INVENTOR.

ATTORNEYS.

Patented July 23, 1929.

UNITED WILLIAM F. LITTLE, OF YONKERS, NEW .YORK.

MEASURING DEVICE.

Application filed August 20, 1524., Serial No. 733,106. I

Y The invention relates to a device for measuring, by weight or bulk, materials of either liquid or solid form. v

The object of the invention is to provide 6 means whereby mixtures of'different bulk or weight may be made and in which the proportions of the different ingredients will remain the same.

This and further objects will more fully appear in the following specification and accompanying drawings considered together or separately.

One embodiment of the invention is illus trated in the accompanying drawings in which like parts in all of the views are desig nated by similar characters of reference, andv The cup is provided with any desired num-- ber of spaced parallel horizontal lines, four being shown, as a, b, 0, and d, which represents the ingredients and the proportions of the latter will be determined by the relative spacings of the lines. Thus in the drawings the horizontal lines a, b, c, and d, have been shown as spaced equally, indicating that the ingredients are to be of relatively equal vol- 'ume or bulk.

The cup is also provided with a number of spaced parallel vertical lines, five being shown, as 1, 2, 3', 4 and 5. representing the number of allotments of different total volemployed. Thus, where a mixture of volume equal to that of the full container is desired, the line 5 with its subdivisions or graduations is employed and when only four-fifths of the full cup volume is desired the line 4: will be used. The intersections of the horizontal line a, b, c, and d, with one of the vertical lines as 5, serve to graduate the latter in accordance with the proportions as represented by the spacings of the horizontal lines.

umes for which the cup may be satisfactorily As graphicallyillustrated in Fig. 2, four straight l nes, 6, f, g and 7b are etched, or otherwise formed, on the side of the cup and these lines extend from the point x at the bottom of line 5 around the cup to the intersections of the line 5 with the linesa, b, 0

and d respectively.

It will be understoodthat the number of horizontal lines representing the number of ingredients used in the mixture for a maximum volume of mixturemay vary, as may also the vertical lines repr'esentingditferent volumes of mixture "or the number of allotments to be poured from the cup whereby mixtures having more or less than four ingredients may be compounded into moreor less than five allotments each having the same proportions of the ingredients.

Any desired number and spacing of graduations may be provided 'on the vertical line 5 and in F ig; 3,1 have shown one section of the line 5 as that between the marks 0 andd,

as sub-divided further. In this way smaller amounts of any of the ingredients may be accurately measured.

It is desiredto have it understood that the cup A may be of any desired shape otherthan cylindrical. It may be of any desired form or cross section. I

; In compounding a drink composed of four ingredients of equal volume. for five persons,

the cup will be filled each ingredient filling a space between twohorizontal lines w-a, a 'b, b-0, and cd. In making the same drink for-one person the ingredients will be measured on the line 1 at the points a, b, c and d. For two persons on the line 2 and for three persons on the line I Itwill beunderstood that the lines (I -:20 etc. need not extend entirely around the cup A, as shown, but maybe indicated on the vertical lines at thev crossing points only.

It will also be understood that the cup need not be of transparent material but may be opaque with transparent portions at' the points. where the horizontal and diagonal lines cross the vertical lines.

Instead of employing a measuring cup such as is shown in Fig. 1, the invention may be carried out in any vessel, by placing the requisite markings on, for example, a thin sheetof suitable material, of such dimensions that it may be placed within the receptacle.

In compounding a mixture such as that de-' scribed in connection with the cup of Fig. 1 a card-like sheet marked like the diagram of the individual ingredients is known.

Fig. 2, but with the vertical lines 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 closer together, may be employed in connection with any vessel in which the card can be inserted. The card may be :placed in the vessel, and the proportions noted as before.

A plurality of sets of cards may be kept on hand, one set for pint cups, another for gallon measures, etc., and each set may have any number of horizontal and vertical lines cut by the diagonal lines whereby any desired quantity with any number of ingredients, and for any number of allotments may be measured and'with the use of a very limited number of containers.

By this invention there is produced a graduated container which is particularly adapted for use in compounding a recipe or mixture of various ingredients for a total volume other than that in which the volumes of Thus where 'it is desired to compounda recipe for a number of persons other than that for which tlie'recip'e was originally formulated,

"the device herein disclosed is particularly adaptable.

In accordance with the provisions of the patent statutes the principle of the invention has been described, together with the apparatus which is now considered to represent the best embodiment thereohbut it is desired. to have it understood that the apparatus shown is merely illustrative, and that the invention maybe carried out in other ways.

The invention having been described, what is claimed as new and desired'to be secured by Letters Patent, is as follows 1. Means for compounding ingredients and measuring the mixtures of these, comprising a container adapted to hold said mixtures, there being a set of horizontal lines on the side walls of the container, each representing an ingredient portion of a mixture of maximum volume, a set of vertical lines on the side walls of the container, and a set otob lique lines on the side walls of the container,

crossing the vertical lines, joining at a single point located substantially on the bottom periphery of the container and connecting said single point with the intersecting points of the horizontal lines with one of the vertical lines,'so that the ingredient portions of mixtures of (IllflGIQIlt volumes, as indicated on to the ingredient portions of a mixture of maximum volume, as represented by the hor1- zontal lines.

clients and their portions corresponding to" a mixture of required volumeqfor said next mum number of allotments, anda set of oblique lines intersecting said line at the divisions marked thereon and crossing the remaining vertical lines sothatthe ingredient portions of mixturesof difi'erent allotments as indicated on the vertical lines at their points of intersection with the oblique lines are proportional to the ingredient portions of the mixture of maximum number of allotments. I

3. Acompounding and measuring device comprising a container adapted to hold a mixture of ingredients, said container having 'i'ormed thereon a plurality of sets of vert cally spaced indicating marks, the marks of ach set being difi erei tly spaced from the bottom of the container and in such a way that the distances betweenmarks along any setare proportional to the distances between marks along other set so thatv said marks indicate proportional amounts of the 1ngredientsfor mixtures of the difierent volumes,

L A compounding and measuring device comprising a container adapted to hold a mixture of ingredients, said containerhaving formed thereon a pluralitybf sets of vertically spaced indicating marks, "each set being characterized by a numeral indicating the number of allotments to bepoured from the container, and the marks ofeach set being differently spaced from the bottom. of the container in such a way that the spacing between marks is uniformly increased "from one set to another so that said marks'in-di cate proportional amounts ofthe ingredients for difierent numbers of equal allotments to be poured from the container;

This specification signed-and witnessed this thirteenth day of August, 1924. i

. WILLIAM F. LITTLF.

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